11Mbps Wireless LAN PCI Card
User's Manual
11Mbps Wireless LAN PCI Card
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Mode
This field allows you to select from a list of supported Network “Modes”. The modes displayed will
have three values: “802.11Ad Hoc”, “ Ad Hoc”, and “Infrastructure”.
802.11 Ad Hoc -
This is the 802.11 peer-to-peer mode of operation. In 802.11Ad Hoc only one
wireless “cell” is supported for each different SSID. All communication is done from Client to Client
without the use of an Access Point. 802.11 Ad Hoc networking use the same SSID for establishing
the wireless connection.
Ad Hoc -
A non-compliant mode that will allow Prism2 (and only Prism2) cards to talk with one
another without an AP regardless any SSID. Since it is not standards compliant, It would have the
interpretability with non-Prism2 radios.
Infrastructure -
This mode of operation requires the presence of an 802.11 Access Point. All
communication is done via the Access Point
,
which relays packets to other wireless Clients in
the BSS as well as to nodes on a wired network such as Ethernet.
